I’m not a psychologist or a sociologist so all this is amateur but I’m still amazed at the lack of pride these people have. It’s been about ten years of watching people first indulge, then debase, then dedicate themselves to a clown. It still blows my mind.

The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!

Every time I’m feeling down I go to a B&N on a Saturday and see teens treating the manga section like a library, and I feel spiritually-reset.

For untold years the elite grift has depended on acting like we all believe the same things. Turning on a dime to "No it's fine, you can say slurs now, King President can install a Dave & Busters in the White House if he wants" fucks the whole game up. They haven't realized this yet, but they will.

“Constant lying is not about making people believe a lie, but about ensuring that no one believes anything. A people who no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between good and evil: a people deprived of the power to think,”
Hannah Arendt.

Are we there yet?